target-arm: Don't halt on WFI unless we don't have any work

Just NOP the WFI instruction if we have work to do.
This doesn't make much difference currently (though it does avoid
jumping out to the top level loop and immediately restarting),
but the distinction between "halt" and "don't halt" will become
more important when the decision to halt requires us to trap
to a higher exception level instead.

Suggested-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/target-arm/translate.c b/target-arm/translate.c
index ed2c43d235..6493b9a523 100644
--- a/target-arm/translate.c
+++ b/target-arm/translate.c
@@ -11351,6 +11351,10 @@ static inline void gen_intermediate_code_internal(ARMCPU *cpu,
             break;
         case DISAS_WFI:
             gen_helper_wfi(cpu_env);
+            /* The helper doesn't necessarily throw an exception, but we
+             * must go back to the main loop to check for interrupts anyway.
+             */
+            tcg_gen_exit_tb(0);
             break;
         case DISAS_WFE:
             gen_helper_wfe(cpu_env);